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Neuromancer is rightly one of the greatest science fiction novels of all time. You can tell because it has never been made into a movie, much less a successful one. Count Zero is a loose sequel. It references some of the occurrences of its predecessor but is mostly its own thing.
The author has a very distinct style. Very noir. Very ambiguous. He describes in great detail the trees and lets you figure out what the forest looks like for yourself. This is both wonderful and teeth grindingly frustrating. Sometimes he literally skips the action he’s been building up to, leaving the reader grasping for closure and a sense of what’s going on.
At the same time the world he has created and the big ideas he casually throws around are compelling enough to make the reader persist. Having said that, the world he has created is not pleasant. The common theme is humanity losing its humanity in a sea of information and technology. So in spite of some dated technological ideas, it’s still relevant.
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